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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
Yakus v. United States
Citation:
321 U.S. 414 (1944)Facts
During World War II, Congress passed the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 to combat inflation by authorizing the Price Administrator to set maximum prices for commodities. The Act established a specific procedure for challenging these regulations: within 60 days of issuance, parties could file protests with the Administrator, and if denied, could appeal to the Emergency Court of Appeals, with potential further review by the Supreme Court. The Act explicitly prohibited all other courts from considering the validity of such regulations. Albert Yakus, a wholesale meat dealer in Boston, was charged with selling beef at prices exceeding the established maximums. At trial, Yakus attempted to challenge the validity of the regulations, but the district court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to consider such challenges. Yakus was convicted and fined, and he appealed on the grounds that the Act unconstitutionally delegated legislative power and denied him due process by preventing him from challenging the regulations in his criminal trial.
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